Word: clog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other German-held Brittany ports-Saint-Nazaire and Lorient -U.S. soldiers plugged at a less spectacular pace. The British, ready to close on Le Havre, hoped it would not become another Brest. But they had little hope that the Germans, if they were squeezed out, would not first clog its deep port with destruction, as they had Cherbourg...
Brest and Saint-Nazaire might be speedily put to use. The swiftness of the American advance had probably given the Germans little time to clog their harbors with destruction. But even if these ports and Lorient had been blocked and shattered, they were prizes of immediate value. They were the Germans' chief Atlantic U-boat bases. The Battle of the Atlantic, already beaten down to nuisance proportions, might be close...
With few exceptions, the British press opposes the blackout. Argued Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard: "We shall return to the Dark Ages. . . . The blackout will clog our transport and put fresh brakes on industrial production. ... In 1941 industrial accidents among men rose by 42% over 1938; among women by 192%. . . .In 1940 many citizens accepted the blackout as a grim necessity. . . . 1940 is as remote as 1840 for everybody -except the Government departments which imposed the blackout and on this matter have suffered a mental blackout ever since...
...second-quarter earnings reports began to clog the ticker tapes last week, one fact stood out: despite hell & high taxes U.S. corporations made more money than they had dared hope. The gloomily Republican New York Sun totted up 155 companies' earnings, came out with a 16.6% increase for this year's June quarter over last year's; a 14.1% gain for the first half...
...newest revenue measures falling short of actual war costs, no phase of the nation's accelerated production program can afford to lay itself open to accusations of faulty economy. Already the gap between buying power and consumer goods is of inflationary proportions. Dust on Aiken's charges can clog the war machine...